Rev. Roy Jones v. The City of Lubbock

RANDALL, Circuit Judge:

The City of Lubbock, Texas, appeals a judgment holding that the City’s at-large system of electing members of its city coun cil violated both the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.CA. § 1973 (West Supp.1983). That judgment rests on the district court’s findings that the City, at least in part, adopted its electoral system as a means to discriminate against its black citizens, and that the system presently deprives the City’s black and Mexican-American citizens of equal access to the electoral process.…